Re: Spamming the Data Space – CLIP, GPT and synthetic data

are talking more about a social approach and less about a technical. best Francis - 'Perplexed in Mianjin/Brisbane' On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 8:54 AM Francis Hunger wrote: Dear Luke, dear All Interesting essay Francis, and always appreciate Brian'

Re: Spamming the Data Space – CLIP, GPT and synthetic data

cy. Finally, I'm interested in the question of bias and representation, and how a cultural snapshot, that builds on a biased dataset (and no, I'm not saying there are unbiased datasets at all), can further deepen these biases with each future interation, when these bias get statist

Re: Spamming the Data Space – CLIP, GPT and synthetic data

Hi Brian, On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 3:55 AM Francis Hunger wrote: While some may argue that generated text and images will save time and money for businesses, a data ecological view immediately recognizes a major problem: AI feeds into AI. To rephrase it: statistical computing

Spamming the Data Space – CLIP, GPT and synthetic data

Dear Nettimers, honoring the institutionalized format, I'm posting this speculative text in the hope for comments. best Francis @databasecultures@dair-community.social / www.irmielin.org *** Spamming the Data Space – CLIP, GPT and synthetic data *** ** Introduction ** For the last time i

Five Video Interviews about AI

to visual archives and the question of how new contexts can be created in these collections using machine learning. Francis Hunger conducts interviews with artists, curators and theorists who have made significant contributions to the research field in recent y

House of Mirrors – Artificial Intelligence as phantasm

ina Papa, Julien Prévieux, Anna Ridler, RYBN, Sebastian Schmieg, Gwenola Wagon, Conrad Weise, Mushon Zer-Aviv Curated by: Inke Arns, Francis Hunger, Marie Lechner "Enter the hall of mirrors, which reflects human reality, sometimes in direct reflections, so

Re: The German "Open Letter" on Ukraine

Hi Brian, I think this open letter shows a rift in leftist analysis in Germany. The more radical-leftist leaning weekly newspapers Jungle World and Analyse & Kritik have contributed valuable analysis: https://jungle.world/artikel/2022/19/western-leftists-e

Data Proxy 5

Dear Nettimers. the next episode of the already epic Data Proxy vlog is out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_N7IPcROM How would a society look like, where data production was mandatory? The data proxy is a consultant by profession and is here to help you. People are expected to participat

Training the Archive – Video interviews and Working Paper

://trainingthearchive.ludwigforum.de/en/working-papers-2/ Curation and its Statistical Automation by means of Artificial ‘Intelligence’ by Francis Hunger The text examines several projects as case studies that approach curation using artificial ‘intelligence’: The Next

Re: (re)programming: Community - Astra Taylor in conversation with Marta Peirano

Dear List, in the good old tradition of media artists turning to actual money making, I've started my consultancy as Data Proxy. Obviously, part of the success story is dropping new vlog episodes every two weeks on YouTube. The first vlog

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

Dmytri, I'm surprised by the arrogant and insulting tone of your mail. There has been a long line of Marxist critique which acknowledges the atrocities of Stalinism and questions the state fixation of the traditional reading of Marxism, while still being able to deliver a notion of non-capita

Re: teaching republic

Title: teaching republic   Would it help to deliver more solidarity addresses from art schools and academia? Is other help needed? best Francis Am 08.10.20 um 12:32 schrieb János Sugár:

machine learning and the reduction of reality to data

Dear Nettimers, a debate about a computational phrenology paper "Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in paintings" (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18566-7) is now ongoing on twitter https://twitter.com/yet_so_far/status/130947597637672

Re: Lev on the embarressment of digital art

Dears, The problem of Ars Electronica is known for a long time. It adds up. It can't however not be generalized for the field, as Olia already pointed out. What might be at stake is a discussion about festival culture. As much as I value festivals as a meeting

Utopian Worlds – The possible beyond the actual

Dear Nettimers, my friends from https://utopian-worlds.org are looking for more contributions. They are a research initiative collecting individual utopian ideas and ask to 1.) send an image of an object and 2.) describe how it relates to your possible utopia. The project already collected an amo

Re: Algorithms that Matter Symposium 2020: Call for contributions

cognition (aka AI) and databases these are spaces that can be contested and subverted to a larger extend than I have seen until today. This discussion is very important. Would you mind if I add it to the symposium RC page? Of course. If it's on nettime, it's pu

Re: Algorithms that Matter Symposium 2020: Call for contributions

Hi Hanns and everybody, > Rather than understanding algorithms as existing and transparent tools, > the ALMAT Symposium is interested in their genealogical, processual > aspects and their transformative potential. We seek critical approaches > that avoid both mystification and commodification, that

Re: Has net-art lost political significance?

Hi Rachel, A bit more detail

Re: Fwd: are you on nettime?

Hey Luke, below a few more comments, >> This kind of description ascribes a lot of power/agency to the technical >> medium and does in my opinion not fully grasp the agency of individuals >> who have to actively seek this content > I wouldn't go so far as to say the user is the victim - and certa

Re: Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn

> Thoughts? I would love to hear more comments on this issue from a broader range of people on this list (not exclusively from the usual suspects). Francis -- http://databasecultures.irmielin.org # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for ne

Re: Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn

Dear Geert and Luke, although I agree with  a large part of Lukes analyse let me put in question the point of machinic agency. Luke writes: "Calibrated correctly, platforms grasp the social, cultural or ideological connections between content, presenting a sequence of ideas that seem natural, eve

Re: James Bridle: Review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (Guardian)

Indirectly related to Morozov's insightful discussion of Zuboffs "surveillance capitalism" is my own short blurb on "surveillancism" at http://databasecultures.irmielin.org/surveillancism (which I wrote without having read Zuboff) This tries to provide a

Re: Interview with Richard Stallman in New Left Review (September-October 2018)

Hi everybody, I was a bit disappointed, that this kind of 'weak' Stallman interview was published in the New Left Review. 'Weak' insofar as I can't see much 'leftist' in it. My 2003 thesis-paper "Open Source – Open Gender" discussed critically quite a fewissues regarding Open Source from a leftis

Epistemic Harvest

://databasecultures.irmielin.org/ Epistemic Harvest: The Electronic Database as Discourse and Means of Data Production Francis Hunger ––– Introduction ––– The following discussion of computational capital takes the electronic database, an infrastructure for storing